Example sentences of "of [noun] to women " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibility that so-called gender differences in participation reflect differences in the ‘ openness ’ or responsiveness of institutions to women and men is not explored in the malestream approach . |
| 2 | For eighteenth-century England there is no good history of sex , none of prostitution ; not even a good history of attitudes to women . |
| 3 | Women 's weak labour-market position is a source of disadvantage to women from which only employers benefit , since it enables them to pay women workers less than they would men . |
| 4 | Some suggest that it is more important to be able to bring political pressure to bear , so that the elected representatives of whatever sex will pass legislation of benefit to women . |
| 5 | This tradition that the redemption brought by Christ has abolished laws of purity that distinguished between clean and unclean animals , clean and unclean foods , clean and unclean people ( Jew and gentile ) and clean and unclean physical states ( women during menstruation ) restrained Christianity for several centuries from applying laws of impurity to women . |
| 6 | Many novels of adventure have been based on the chivalric theme of service to women . |
| 7 | Cook published books and pamphlets of advice to women travellers which contained every detail of suitable dress — even to a preference for button , rather than elastic-sided boots , which made ankles swell on lengthy tours of museums , cathedrals and ruins . |
| 8 | A word of advice to women of child-bearing age is to begin the diet just after your period has arrived and not in the week your period is due . |
| 9 | Many national and several international meetings were organised on the subject of ‘ Women and the Media ’ , raising such questions as how the mass media treats issues of concern to women , and women 's participation in various capacities in the production of mainstream media . |
| 10 | Herself no academic , she saw no value in the evolution of the halls into colleges with staffs of women tutors , nor in the opening of degrees to women while Oxford 's matriculation requirement included Latin and Greek . |
| 11 | But the relation of fertility to women 's employment and income is quite different . |
| 12 | A biology of hierarchy grounded in a metaphysically prior ‘ great chain of being ’ gave way to a biology of incommensurability in which the relationship of men to women , like that of apples to oranges , was not given as one of equality or inequality but rather as a difference whose meaning required interpretation and struggle . |
| 13 | In the 1860s , for example , 70 per cent of men between 21 and 36 years of age were bachelors and this by choice , for the ratio of men to women was virtually equal . |
| 14 | There has , however , been a change in the ratio of men to women with the disease . |
| 15 | The ratio of men to women board directors there has risen by half a point to just under 2% . |
| 16 | However , they underestimate the amount of opposition there is from some groups of men to women getting good jobs . |
| 17 | Rape and battering are merely one end of a continuum of aggressive forms of behaviour of men to women . |
| 18 | The balance of the sexes among the West Indian population is very similar to that of the white population , but among Asians there is a relatively high ratio of men to women as figure 5.2 shows . |
| 19 | Among Asians there is a relatively high ratio of men to women . |
| 20 | The ratio of men to women in the whole clinic was 1:1.7 compared with 1:1.2 in the elderly group . |
| 21 | ‘ If you mean do I prefer the company of men to women , then yes , I am . ’ |
| 22 | Just over three-quarters of births to women under 20 were outside marriage in 1989 , compared with 37% in 1977 and 8% in 1971 . |
| 23 | Such changes would be likely to increase the incidence of some of these conditions , as well as of births to women who do not report , or even discover , their unwanted pregnancies until late in gestation ( see Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1984 ) . |
| 24 | In 1988 only 8 per cent of legitimate children were born to remarried women , but they contributed 13 per cent of births to women aged 30–4 and 22 per cent of births to women aged 35–9 . |
| 25 | In 1988 only 8 per cent of legitimate children were born to remarried women , but they contributed 13 per cent of births to women aged 30–4 and 22 per cent of births to women aged 35–9 . |
| 26 | In 1977 13 per cent of births to women married once only were third births , but among remarried women 24 per cent of births were third births . |
| 27 | If it is assumed that the age structure of the inward flow and the outward flow is similar and that those who leave continue to reproduce at the same rate as those of a similar age who stay then an estimate of the number of births to women who leave can be made ( table ) . |
| 28 | No account is taken of the importance of housework to women , either in terms of the simple amount of time women spend on domestic-care activities , or in terms of the personal meaning of housework to women ( which may , of course , vary with different social locations ) . |
| 29 | No account is taken of the importance of housework to women , either in terms of the simple amount of time women spend on domestic-care activities , or in terms of the personal meaning of housework to women ( which may , of course , vary with different social locations ) . |
| 30 | The literature ( especially Macdonald 's 1904 account ) is full of references to women 's " pessimistic and listless " attitude to the fight for higher wages , but as we have already noted , women were often inclined to agree that they were not doing the " full job " , a view in which they were daily fortified by both masters and men . |